Like PPs, I get 6-8 weeks from short-term disability at 60% pay. I’m taking all my saved up personal leave (6 weeks), which will pay 100% &, thanks to fact that we are now paid on a year-round paycheck, I can “come back to work” on June 20th (Summer Break, so not really working) & get paid 100%. So, my maternity ends up being about 5 months & I’m not getting a percentage of my paycheck for only something like 3 weeks (taking 2 weeks off before my due date, thanks to FMLA, which is unpaid).

ETA: SO jealous of Canada & Australia…a friend of mine is from Estonia & she says they get up to 3 years off with full pay.

In New Zealand we get fourteen weeks maternity leave paid at $450ish per week and we can take a further 38 weeks of unpaid leave if we’ve been in employment for over twelve months with the current employer.

Im one of the lucky Canadians 🙂 Definitely truly grateful for the amount of time we get off, although we “only” (and I use that term loosely since we are VERY lucky) get a portion of our salary for the majority of the time. It does however depend on your employer. Some people get “top up” for a portion of their mat leave and the rest is paid out by the government (to a max of $790 bi-weekly).

I’m in Canada so maternity leave is one year, my employer tops up the first 6 months of my leave to 85% of my salary and then it’s 65% for the remaining 6 months. I had no idea that it was so different in the states until I met a girl who had twins and went back to work about 10 days after she gave birth. With about a 20K hospital bill.

I wish I could extend my health benefits to the bees out there who have to go through similar situations 🙁

I work for the US federal government, so none. You have to use up your accrued sick time or vacation time if you want to be paid for time off after having a baby. Pretty sad example the federal government sets for the country.

Yeah, I’m in Seattle, I joked about moving to Vancouver to get these benefits but then I realized that I have to be employed by a canadian company to get this. My company does have a site in Alberta…. hmmm, I wonder if I could transfer. LOL